We have been fed an unending line of BS from James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper. Clapper, in particular, has been a source of egregious deceit. He’s been lying for some time. Remember this one?
“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper during the March 12 hearing.
In response, Clapper replied quickly: “No, sir.”
“There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect [intelligence on Americans], but not wittingly,” the U.S. intelligence chief told Wyden and the rest of the committee.
That said, “particularly in the case of NSA and CIA, there are structures against tracking American citizens in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes,” Clapper added.
Now his defense is he didn’t lie. He made a mistake:
James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, fired back Tuesday at President Trump’s claim that he is a “lying machine.”
Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Clapper denied that he had misled Congress when he testified on the spying activities of the National Security Agency in 2013, saying he had simply “made a mistake” when responding to a question.
Yeah, well so did Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos. The only difference is Clapper wasn’t charged for lying.
Then as the IG report looms Clapper begins to spill the beans. They did spy on Trump:
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied on Wednesday that the FBI sought to spy on President Trump‘s campaign, saying that the bureau used an informant to “determine what the Russians were up to.”
“The intent though … was not to spy on the campaign, but rather to determine what the Russians were up to,” Clapper said on PBS’s “NewsHour.”
“Were they trying to penetrate the campaign, gain access, gain leverage, gain influence?” he continued. “That was the concern the FBI had, and I think they were just doing their job in trying to protect out political system.”
Clapper said Trump should be happy they were spying on him. They were protecting him:
Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper used the word spy while discussing the Trump campaign surveillance scandal in an appearance on Tuesday’s The View. Clapper said the spy was there for Russian meddling purposes and that Trump should be happy such a person existed.
President Trump has claimed for months now that his campaign for president was surveilled. Many did not take him seriously, however, last night law professor Jonathan Turley said he was right.
“With the informant business, well, the point here is the Russians,” Clapper said. “Not spying on the campaign but what are the Russians doing? And in a sense, unfortunately, what they were trying to do is protect our political system and protect the campaign.”
Which explains why they shared their concerns with Trump and warned him about it.
Not.
Then there was the admission that there was a spy in the Trump campaign, but not really. You see, it was an informant:
The Washington Post’s report on those comments said Trump was making a reference to a “confidential source” who the FBI used to “aid its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.” But the story disputed Trump’s suggestion that the FBI may have secretly spied on his campaign, and said there’s “no evidence to suggest that the source was inserted into the Trump campaign…”
The story instead chose to describe the informant as someone who “did engage in a pattern of seeking out and meeting Trump campaign advisers.”
Who spied on Trump.
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One could successfully argue that spy and informant are synonyms. Spying on campaigns is not the norm. Michael Barone makes the amusing observation that Nixon should have thought of using the argument the left is making today:
“FBI used informant to investigate Russia ties to campaign, not to spy,” read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18.
“The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016,” reads a story in the May 21 Wall Street Journal.
So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump’s campaign as paranoid fantasy. Defenders of the Obama intelligence and law enforcement apparatus have had to fall back on the argument that this infiltration was for Trump’s — and the nation’s — own good.
It’s an argument that evidently didn’t occur to Richard Nixon’s defenders when it became clear that Nixon operatives burglarized and wiretapped the Democratic National Committee in June 1972.
Liberals are blathering on about Trump endangering the “American system.” Carl Bernstein
“We’re seeing the president being enabled by the Republican Party in Washington, which is not putting the truth or the common national interest above partisan interest, but rather is trying to bury this investigation. The president is engaged in a cover-up to bury a legitimate investigation. And he’s being enabled by those in in the Republican Party with great success,” he said.
Bernstein and all the other liberals ignore the fact that a whole lot of people have been fired or demoted from the FBI and DOJ.
Department of Justice (Non-FBI):
- John Carlin – Assistant Attorney General – Head of DOJ’s National Security Division – announced resignation on September 27, 2016 after filing the Government’s proposed 2016 Section 702 certifications on September 26, 2016. The filing does not disclose known FISA Abuses. Carlin is aware NSA Rogers is conducting a compliance review which will uncover the FISA Abuse. The 2016 certifications are scheduled for Court approval on October 26, 2016. Trump surveillance originated under Carlin’s tenure.
- Sally Yates – Deputy Attorney General & Acting Attorney General (replacing Loretta Lynch – 10 days) – fired January 30, 2017. Complicit in Flynn Surveillance and surveillance of Trump Campaign.
- Mary McCord – Acting Assistant Attorney General – Acting Head of DOJ’s National Security Division (replacing John Carlin) – announced resignation on April 17, 2017 – Left on May 11, 2017. Complicit in Flynn Surveillance and surveillance of Trump Campaign.
- Bruce Ohr – Associate Deputy Attorney General – demoted twice. Stripped of Associate Deputy Attorney General title on December 6, 2017. Removed as head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force January 8, 2018. Unofficial liaison between Fusion GPS and FBI/DOJ. Wife worked at Fusion. Long-standing ties to both Christopher Steele and Glenn Simpson/Fusion GPS.
- David Laufman – DOJ National Security Division, Deputy Asst. Attorney General in charge of counterintelligence – resigned on February 7, 2018. Laufman “played a leading role in the Clinton email server and Russian hacking investigations.”
- Rachel Brand – Associate Attorney General – number three official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein – resigned February 9, 2018. Takes top legal position at Walmart. Brand “played a critical role in Congress’ re-authorization” of section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
FBI:
- James Comey – FBI Director – fired May 9, 2017. Oversaw all FBI operations – including exoneration of Clinton and Trump-Russia Investigation. Reported to AG Lynch.
- Peter Strzok – Deputy Assistant Director of FBI’s Counterintelligence – forced off Mueller’s team – demoted August 16, 2017 to FBI’s Human Resources. IG Horowitz discovered texts July 27, 2017. Strzok involved in all facets of Clinton exoneration. Working member of “Insurance Policy” group.
- Lisa Page – FBI/DOJ Lawyer – forced off Mueller’s team – demoted August 16, 2017 to parts unknown. IG Horowitz discovered texts July 27, 2017. Working member of “Insurance Policy” group.
- James Baker – FBI General Counsel – demoted and reassigned on December 20, 2017. Working member of “Insurance Policy” group. Senior-most legal counsel at FBI.
- James Rybicki – Chief of Staff to FBI Director James Comey & successor Chris Wray – resigned/forced out January 23, 2018. Working member of “Insurance Policy” group.
- Andrew McCabe – Deputy FBI Director – on December 23, 2017 announcedretirement effective March 22, 2018. Forced to resign on January 29, 2018. Involved in all aspects. Reported to Comey.
- Josh Campbell – Special Assistant to James Comey – resigned on February 2, 2018. Writes op-ed in New York Times on why he is leaving but does not disclose in op-ed that he was Special Assistant to Comey – or that he had been offered lucrative CNN job. Takes job with CNN on February 5, 2018.
- Michael Kortan – FBI Asst. Director Public Affairs – resigned on February 8, 2018 – effective February 15, 2018. Kortan served as assistant director for public affairs, an influential job that controlled media access.
- Bill Priestap – Assistant Director – Head of FBI Counterintelligence – Holds same position. Strzok’s boss – reported directly to McCabe.
And that’s only so far.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/999442400820031494
Trump is not destroying the system, he’s cleaning it out. And it does need cleaning.
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Sources tell The Daily Caller several FBI agents want congressional subpoenas to testify about the agency’s problems.
- The sources claim there is a demand within the agency to prosecute former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. They also say the bureau has become totally politicized.
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The subpoenas are desired by the FBI agents because it requires Congress to pay for their legal fees and protects them from agency retribution.
But you have to laugh at Clapper’s canard that they were trying to protect Trump. That would also require us to believe that Mueller is trying to protect Trump. You know, by framing all his campaign staff and mining alleged crimes from a decade ago in hopes of suborning perjury that could be used against Trump.
That kind of protection.
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70 years of working to destroy the republic as blabbed by McCain, NWO as blabbed by Bush, Village to raise a child, Clinton I dont want my kids raised by the Village People. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-BPRXYk9g
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There are quite a few liberal democrats and turn coats in both parties that need to be given news jobs as sanitation workers
Back in Feb, in order to try to force Trump & his associates to give in and confess to their “crimes,” Mueller indicted several ham sandwiches.
One of them was a Russian company, Concord Management and Consulting.
Concord entered the U.S., hired American lawyers, and demanded a speedy trial. OOPS!
Mueller was not ready!
He begged the judge to delay the trial.
Judge said No.
Now, he’s begging the same judge again.
http://dailycaller.com/2018/05/23/mueller-delay-russia-trial/
He’d already had whatever time it took to gather evidence BEFORE the indictment.
He’s also had from Feb til now, over 60 days!
Maybe he should face the facts and drop the indictment.
Then drop the others.
Then drop the “charges” of making a mistake on Gen Flynn & George Papadopoulos.
Then, maybe, he should just go away.
“Oh… you meant THAT NSA and CIA. Oh, yeah, we collect and use anything we can against anyone that disagrees with our politics.”
What a pleasant existence it must be to block out all facts and only believe what absolutely confirms and reinforces your own bigotry, biases and prejudices. Maybe that’s what makes liberalism so appealing to the weak of mind and character.
Clapper claimed that what happened to Trump is normal. If it is normal, then he should provide us with specific examples such as the name of the operation GWB used to spy on Obama in 2008 or the name of the operation used to spy on HRC in 2016. After all, it is proven fact that both of those candidates had contact with and took gobs of money from foreigners.
A good question given our current plight. My answer is ‘NO’:
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2018/05/24/can-we-hope-to-keep-our-republic-when-one-of-the-parties-supports-tyranny-n2483027
Well, Clapper convinced Joy Behar, so he MUST have made a great argument.
But the common meaning of informant, which would actually be applicable in this case, is not the same as the pejorative sense in which Trump is using the word spy. This is just another example of the deceptive tactics that are second nature to Donald Trump.
The “cleaning out” seems to involve the removal of anyone who crosses or poses a threat to Donald Trump, or who privately expressed negative views about his person, candidacy or qualifications.
@Greg: So, if Trump paid “informants” to be a part of Democrat campaigns if he could conjure up some suspicion to justify it, you would be just fine with that?
I think you should go back through the list again. Leaking information to the media, openly expressing a desire to guide an investigation to a specific political end, conducting illegal surveillance and lying to the FBI, while they may all be characteristics of your political ideology, does not necessarily represent “views”. They are, in fact, illegal activity. Many on the list have resigned ahead of the results of the IG report. This is merely the damage Obama caused to the government and our confidence in government.
I suppose you are also in favor of the issue of subpoenas to these FBI agents who want to testify against the politicized activities the FBI has been engaged in, right? Because you like testimony and revelations?
@Greg: You cant change the meaning of a word neither can the media, language does not belong exclusively to the left. They are trying to soften the blow when it all is exposed. The horror of rigging and election from top to bottom and losing anyway, then going full blown banana republic.
@Deplorable Me #8:
Which informant was paid “to be a part of” the Trump campaign?
Was someone paid to join Team Trump as an inside FBI operative?
If so, that’s a news report I’ve somehow missed.
@Greg: Yup you missed it a cool million tax payer dollars for being an Obama spy https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-21/fbi-informant-stefan-halper-paid-over-1-million-obama-admin-spied-trump-aide-after
Is it normal to use pentagon funds to pay for opposition research?
@Greg: Why are you incapable of answering a simple question?
@Greg: When you look at the number of people fired and/or demoted, paying Halper a million bucks to spy and the constant backpedaling of Clapper you have to admit Trump has a point.
@DrJohn: The way Clapper’s mouth has been going off, he better be looking over his shoulder for someone from Hillary’s “suicide squad”.
@kitt, #10:
Who said his DoD contract payments were for opposition research? He’s apparently good at doing something that the DoD needs done. With any luck, maybe republicans can expose that, too.
For that matter, what evidence is there that he was doing “opposition research” for the FBI? Investigating indications that a highly placed person within a U.S. presidential campaign is repeatedly being hit on by Russian operatives wouldn’t fall under the category of “opposition research.” What they’d be looking into would be a possible national security threat. There was no way that responsible people simply ignore such a possibility.
@Deplorable Me, #12:
Nobody infiltrated the Trump campaign; no spy was placed inside of it. Consequently, What if Trump had done the same thing? is a loaded question. If you don’t know what a “loaded question” is, look it up.
@Greg: I say they were, read the entire article he was spying and reporting back about who he intended to put in his administration ect ect over a million dollars for only 4 papers since 2012. No MSM wants to report on his CIA/Bush sr. ties.
@Greg: Run away! Run away!
@Greg:
Then why not share those concerns with the candidate?
@DrJohn: And did no one fear the Russians would infiltrate the Hillary campaign? After all, they were HELPING Trump, weren’t they?
This BS is so thick, Trump could build the wall out of it. Only problem is, it collapses under its own weight.
@DrJohn, #19:
That’s a very good question.
@Greg: And, a question we all know the answer to. They weren’t protecting Trump; they were protecting Hillary.
@Deplorable Me, #22:
Their concerns weren’t shared with anyone who might have made them public. That discretion effectively protected Trump by preventing them from become a campaign and election issue. Had they become public, his 3 million popular vote loss might well have been much larger, and his unlikely electoral college win probably never would have happened.
Pair that with the fact that the existence of a continuing Clinton investigation was unwisely made public. That had precisely the opposite effect on her lead—which had been revealed by the results of every credible national poll.
An assertion that Clinton was somehow protected while Trump was unfairly disadvantages clearly makes no sense at all. It’s totally incompatible with the known facts. It all worked to Trump’s advantage.
Uh… WHAT? While they were “protecting” Trump, they were leaking (aka, OPPOSITE of protecting) fantastic accusations that Trump was hacking the Democrats and colluding with the Russians.
Had Obama not used taxpayer money and federal departments to fund Democrat spies, that 3 million (mostly fraudulent) votes might have turned totally into a 30 million Trump advantage. Had the Obama DOJ not shielded Hillary from prosecution, Bernie might have been the candidate and we would have seen a Republican victory of unprecedented proportions.
Oh, how unfair. Especially considering that is was ALL brought about by Hillary’s own illegal actions, destruction of evidence and stonewalling. Had she been innocent and wanted the investigation wrapped up quickly, she would have cooperated, as Trump and everyone in his campaign have (of course, since ending the “investigation” is the LAST thing liberals want, Trump’s full cooperation has yielded nothing but FBI raids on homes, businesses and offices).
Oh, please explain THAT one!! This should be good. Trump did nothing to draw suspicion while Hillary was nothing BUT suspicious and Obama, who happens to hail from the same party as Hillary and has the most to gain from her election, chose Trump to spy on. Yeah, how COULD anyone imagine this was biased.
@Deplorable Me, #24:
I just explained it, and very clearly, I think. Everything in post #23 preceding that statement was the explanation.
@Greg: So, the fact that real collusion and influence peddling is ignored while totally imaginary collusion is pursued does not pique your curiosity. OK. I get it. After all, you think Hillary deleted 33,000 yoga, wedding and funeral emails coincidentally just after they were requested for evidence. If it leans left, you will obviously believe absolutely anything, no matter how ridiculous.
You’ve turned the whole thing backwards. It’s one of the right’s most familiar and easily recognized tactics, which tends to turn up in the absence of any logical rebuttal.
@Greg: Yeah, I turned it backwards. Now it’s facing the right direction. Hillary lied about her emails and colluded with the Russians but Obama, to protect her, spied on Trump and tried to control the outcome of the election.
But, as with everything else Obama tried, he failed and now his corrupt ass is hanging WAAAAAAAAY out.
@Greg: @Greg: Actually, They leaked information they learned from monitoring conversations and from the spy/s.